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Keith Blake
Keith Blake

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New York Times, Sunday, May 30, 1971

99-Across : Brynner

Author:
Keith Blake
Editor:
Will Weng
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 90, Avg Word Len: 5.01, Missing: { Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 536 (avg 1.53)
Open Squares: 86, Cheaters: 24, FITB: 14, XRef: 1, Spans: 2, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 26 Grid has repeated answers.
Keith Blake has 6 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1971, The New York TimesNo. 7,960
Across
1
Baseball throw : PEG
4
Ten: Lat. : DECEM
9
Egyptian god : BES
12
Word with air or way : MID
15
Forebear, in Berlin : AHNE
16
Fault : DEMERIT
18
Voice : ALTO
20
Princess of G. & S. : IDA
21
"Guys and Dolls" guy : NICELYNICELY
23
"___, thou winter wind" : BLOWBLOW
25
Collection : ANA
26
Page : PATTI
27
Work unit : ERG
29
Hit the hay : ROLLIN
30
Cover again : REMASK
32
Optical beams : LASERS
35
Checks one's arithmetic : READDS
36
Spigots : TAPS
37
Off balance : ATILT
39
Mother's plea : EAT
41
___ Dai : BAO
42
Dry : SEC
43
Faulkner title : ABSALOMABSALOM
47
Dregs of cane juice : DUNDER
49
Khan et al. : AGAS
50
Public school : ETON
51
Deal in hot tips : TOUT
52
Inscribed : WROTE
53
Dress up : TOG
54
Kind of talk : PEP
57
Hepburn role : CHANEL
60
Jezebel's king : AHAB
61
Service initials : USN
62
Kelp, for one : ALGA
63
68
Heavy cart : DRAY
69
Direction : ENE
70
Mountain snow : FIRN
71
Spanish zither : CITARA
72
Skelton or Holzman : RED
73
Evangeline's Grand ___ : PRE
74
Upstate N. Y. county : TIOGA
76
Word of disgust : PISH
77
"Umble" person : HEEP
78
___ avis : RARA
79
Sines, e.g. : RATIOS
81
Round words : MERRILYMERRILY
84
Way: Abbr. : RTE
86
Men's org : SAR
87
King Cole : NAT
88
Half a Jules Verne number : IOOOO
89
Plain in Spain : NAVA
91
Ones with low IQ's : MORONS
94
Large, in Italy : GROSSA
96
"But there's ___ in your eyes" : YESYES
98
___ régime : ANCIEN
99
Brynner : YUL
100
Like raisins : DRIED
103
Someone, in Seville : UNO
104
Presidential son : JOHNJOHN
107
Reproof for the angry : TEMPERTEMPER
110
Wolframite : ORE
111
Extinct bird : DODO
112
Calm expanses : SERENES
113
Essence : CORE
114
Cape : RAS
115
Greek letter : PSI
116
Fourth-down maneuvers : PUNTS
117
Political victors : INS
Down
1
Barnum : PHINEAS
2
Bivouacked : ENCAMPED
3
Before whiz : GEE
4
Depression : DENT
5
Give out : EMIT
6
Roman saint : CECILIA
7
Poet's word : ERE
8
See 63 Across : MILESTOGOBEFOREISLEEP
9
"___ Ballads" : BAB
10
Wing : ELL
11
German theologian : STORR
12
Water barrier : MILLDAM
13
Broadway show : IDOIDO
14
Grows light : DAWNS
15
What Bismarck called politics : ANART
16
Indonesian : DYAK
17
Wheel part, in London : TYRE
19
"___ is me!" : OWOE
22
Discs: Abbr. : LPS
24
Tattle about : BLABON
28
Kind of monkey : GREASE
31
Vermont mountain : ASCUTNEY
33
Like a Mideast alliance : ALLARAB
34
Day of worship: Abbr. : SAB
37
Aid's partner : ABET
38
Shipping abbr. : TSR
40
Fly : TSETSE
43
Commandment breaker : ADULTERER
44
Type mold : MAT
45
Lack of accent : ATONICITY
46
Record : LOG
48
Certain votes : NOES
52
Reporter's question : WHO
54
"Necessity, the tyrant's ___" : PLEA
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"Rome of Hungary" : EGER
56
Hemingway : PAPA
57
Naval off. : CMDR
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Rent : HIRE
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"When I was ___" : ALAD
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Mellow : AGE
61
Samovar : URN
62
Brass instruments : ALTHORNS
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Admission fee to child's show : ONEPIN
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Operatic barber et al. : FIGAROS
66
Mouths : ORA
67
Mexican's assent : SISI
73
Through : PER
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" ... succeed ___ again" : TRYTRY
75
"___ a Camera" : IAM
76
___ Alto : PALO
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Narcotic : HEROIN
79
Cruise port : RIO
80
Remain mounted : STAYUPON
81
Jo, Meg et al. : MARCHES
82
Hang back : LAG
83
Map-making device : ROADPEN
85
Textile devices : EVENERS
86
Mexican state : SONORA
90
Be ___ loser : ASORE
91
Serious : MAJOR
92
Province of Saudi Arabia : NEJD
93
Pry : SNOOP
95
Inning units : OUTS
96
Conjunctions : YETS
97
Dutch town : EDE
101
Tenant's concern : RENT
102
Annoys : IRES
105
Chiefs: Abbr. : HDS
106
We, in Italy : NOI
108
Burmese people : MRU
109
Date in reign of Henry I : MCI

Answer summary:
16 unique to this puzzle, 10 debuted here and reused later, 8 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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